Friday, September 11, 2015

Blog Kiosk: 9/11/2015 - Dodger Links - Some Odds and Ends

Check out this fantastic 1939 photograph of future Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson on the football field for UCLA training camp. Photo via the Jackie Robinson Foundation on twitter.

Here is something you probably didn't know. Jackie Robinson, for a brief period, played professional football. In 1941 he played for the semi-professional Honolulu Bears - a racially integrated football team. Then returned to California later that year to play for the Los Angeles Bullfrogs of the Pacific Coast League. As fate would have it, Pearl Harbor was bombed that December and the Bullfrog's season came to an abrupt halt. The following year Jackie would be drafted into the Army.

The consecutive leadoff home runs were the first time that has happened since 1951, when Carl Furillo accomplished the feat on his own against the Chicago Cubs as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

As a part of today's commemoration of September 11th the entire league will be wearing special caps with a stylized American flag on its side. See the Dodger cap on the right. Go here to check out and order a cap from New Era. All MLB proceeds from sales of these caps will be donated to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, the Pentagon Memorial and the Flight 93 Memorial.

“Good. Ban it. Do me a favor,” said Dodgers reliever J.P. Howell, a dedicated tobacco user since his college days.
...“If they banned it, I’d be fine with that,” Dodgers left-hander Brett
Anderson said, describing himself as only an occasional user. “This
could be my last one forever. I’ve never been addicted to it. It’s just
something I do out of boredom.”
...
“Honestly, knowing that kids are watching and cameras are on you all the
time (prompted him to quit),” Mattingly said. “And knowing it was bad
for me.”

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